CALABASAS, California, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Fully loaded, battery-powered addition to the Spider family -

Line 6, Inc. (http://www.line6.com), the industry leader in amp modeling technology, announced today that Micro Spider, the traveling guitarist's best friend, and a potent addition to the best-selling Spider III family of modeling amplifiers, has begun shipping and is now available worldwide.

BRASILIA, Brazil, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Brasil Telecom Participacoes S.A. (BOVESPA: BRTP3/BRTP4; NYSE: BRP) registered consolidated net revenue of R$2,762.0 million in the 1Q08, 2.6% up on the 1Q07, and net income of R$ 248.3 million, equivalent to R$ 0.6850 per share.

BrT Movel's EBITDA stood at R$ 14.7 million in the 1Q08, 236.3% up on the same period the year before. The EBITDA margin of the mobile operations came to 3.4%, 2.3 p.p. up on the 1Q07.

In the 1Q08, Brasil Telecom added 69,500 ADSL users to its network, totaling 1,637,300 users in service at the end of the quarter, up by 18.3% year-on-year. ADSL users represented 20.4% of Brasil Telecom's network in the 1Q08, versus 16.7% in the 1Q07.

SWANSEA, Wales, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite the Union and Macmillan distribution (MdL) are holding a World book day event on Wednesday the 23rd of April 2008 at 12.00pm at the Macmillan site in Lye Industrial Estate near Swansea.

The event will provide quick-read books to invited guests, which include Students from Penyrheol Comprehensive School Pontardulais.

Other publishers have generously agreed to provide books for the event, which is expected to be attended by over one hundred guests. World book day events aim to encourage everyone to learn to enjoy books and to make reading a custom.

Scott Quinell, one of the authors of the quick-read books published by Macmillan will host the event and autograph books.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

The Committee for Economic Development and the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings are hosting a conference featuring global business leaders and early child development experts on April 23, 2008 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Eczema is a distressing condition for both parents and babies – the raw, red skin is painful to see and it is difficult to stop small children from scratching it. At worst, it can mean having to wet wrap wriggly toddlers each day with bandages soaked in moisturisers. It usually starts in the first year of life and affects about 10% of infants. Although most children eventually grow out of it, about half will go on to develop another allergic condition, such as asthma or hayfever.

Recent progress in understanding the role of gut bacteria in the development of the infant’s immune system has led to the hope that some of this suffering can be prevented in the future.

Remarkable new research into the way environmental factors affect the development of the brain has opened up the possibility that an infant’s future mental abilities and susceptibility to mental illness can be permanently altered by dietary changes in early life.

Evidence that changes in early diet can have long term effects on brain structure, verbal IQ, eyesight, appetite regulation and possibly on neurodevelopmental outcome will be presented at the international symposium on Early Nutrition Programming in Granada, Spain (23 April).

This is an area of research in which the EC is investing heavily as it offers huge potential in terms of improving the health and reducing health care costs of future generations. Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression, are the second most important cause of ill health in the EU after cardiovascular disease(1). The EC has already invested over €13 million in the Early Nutrition Programming Project (EARNEST) and has now committed another €6 million into the NUTRIMENTHE project (launched 22April 2008).

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Practice Leaders Appointed

Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the appointment of three new practice leaders and a business development head as part of its expanding Quintiles Consulting business, which provides pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies with strategic guidance to maximize potential and minimize risk from early discovery through commercialization.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Empowers UK Shoppers to Save Time and Money and Take Control of Shopping

United Kingdom shoppers, it's time to take control of shopping. Save time, save money, and arm yourselves with mShopper.

mShopper, the leader in mobile shopping, today announced that it has launched its UK shopping service. Armed with real-time price and product details through their cell phones, shoppers in the UK will quickly and easily find and buy great products with only a few keystrokes -- saving valuable time and money.

HONG KONG, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

OrbusNeich's Genous Bio-engineered R stent will be featured at a sponsored symposium during Angioplasty Summit TCT 2008 Asia Pacific.

The symposium, which will take place on April 23 at the Convention Center of Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Seoul, Korea, includes:

Not that these women sweat anyway. "Horses Sweat, Men Perspire And Ladies Glow," my mother always told me.

But you get the idea. A group of fashion conscious women is making a difference this Earth Day - by looking fabulous!

Okay, as a man in his 40s with more children than I can count, I had a hard time even writing the word 'fabulous' without laughing.

But there is something serious happening. Chantecaille, a cosmetics company, has said it will donate five percent of the proceeds of its new “Protected Paradise” face and eyes compacts to the Pew Institute’s Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation program, which provides a $150,000 award to each of five ocean experts around the world annually to develop solutions to critical ocean challenges.